February 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Re: [tor-talk] How secure is a hidden service?
by grarpamp 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

On 2/20/20, Robin Lee <robinlee(a)mailbox.org> wrote: > I'm wondering how hidden a hidden service actually is? > ... > Is it just a function of time and amount of traffic, i.e. the longer > you are online and the more traffic you generate, the more probable it > is to discover the true ip-address? Time and traffic are elements of some known research exploits. One form of general answer might also be... Given the number of proven research exploits against such services in the public literature, and the presumed attention to high security that at least some of the fallen services must have given, it's probably worth assuming that... - Public research exploits are being used in the wild. - Private research exploits do exist and are being used in the wild. - Adversaries using such public exploits, and most assuredly such private ones, are unwilling to let those respective facts of advantage become known, particularly when parallel construction and various [il]legal processes around the world effectively allow those trump cards to remain secret, thus not triggering defensive moves and arms races to their disadvantage. This isn't specific to tor, it's the nature of the entire netsec game, the history of such games showing that many such preposterous ideas not always as far fetched as their prior critiques presumed. While searching the web for the exploit papers is easy, the difficulty comes in showing the actual usage of any exploit. There's probably a wide range of honorary awards and nice paychecks available to whoever breaks any big news or research regarding the topic. And certainly many thanks from rights workers, journalists, etc whose very lives and work depend on it.

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DrugRoutes, DarkWeb, DropGangs and other fun research
by grarpamp 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

http://4h635ssto4t7ryhqyb4z4kax57f7iheoz7gg62ufp7dp6w3j67bjdhyd.onion/ https://twitter.com/RasmusMunks https://twitter.com/search?q=dropgangs

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Re: [tor-relays] Would you place your secrets or in worst case make your life
by grarpamp 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

>> On 13 Feb 2020, at 22:05, zwiebeln <zwiebeln(a)online.de> wrote: >> Would you place your secrets or in worst case make your life >> depended on a network that is 21 percent controlled by a single person >> that you don't know? >> >> https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/allexitfamilies >> >> I think we should start an open debate on that fact, best ending up with >> giving some recommendations. I am sure that question is relevant to >> torproject.org as well. On 2/16/20, teor <teor(a)riseup.net> wrote: > A quick reminder to everyone on this list: this list is moderated. > Please keep your replies helpful and on topic. > So please ask questions in a way that assumes good faith: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith > You'll be more likely to get a helpful answer. > Again, please keep your replies helpful and on topic. Does the world need unnecessary prior restraint threatchill politically correct rewording school over potentially alternate nongroupthink and or counter data analysis or viewpoint freespeech necessary to an open debate as requested by OP. Unfortunately many entities in the world trend such control when incorporated, $50-100+k salaries start being depended upon, YouTube channels censored to keep tidy public message, bury evidences, etc. Cigarettes were hide to cause cancer for decades, what if people knew those facts? Tor is increasingly analyzed by analysts over years due its mass, others care for its users too, etc. Resulting in growing public knowledge of effective adversarial research and exploit of its design and operations limitations, assumptions, oversights, etc. That is reasonable, good process, and occurs with all apps throughout their lifetime. Let all networks not shy from fact and supposition, as they can be good to know, and lead to good improvement in all networks. Perhaps even collate them into known adversarial research list, and a frequent list leaving no side out. > So it's not really helpful to single out a particular operator or network. OP was not accusing anything, merely questioning one such weakness, one that is quite easy to observe, and reasonable to hope see addressed in tor or whatever other network. On 2/17/20, zwiebeln <zwiebeln(a)online.de> wrote: > There is only a small path between moderation and censorship – to get my > message released after four days is close to… > > Your answer Theo is rather technical and doesn't apply really on the > underlying question: > > „Would you place your secrets or in worst case make your life depended on a > network that is 21 percent controlled by a single person that you don't > know?“ > > Your assumption: „But ultimately, if we doubled tor's exit bandwidth, this > issue would go away. That's the best solution to this problem.“ - is wrong. > The Exit only > https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html?start=2017-11-19&end=20… > has more than doubled in the last two years – while the exit probability of > this single person decupled. > > „Perhaps you could run more relays?“ - I am with the project now for more > than three years an do run a exit probability somewhere close to 2 percent, > that i don't like to increase, because i think it is a more than healthy > fraction for a singe person – so why do you insinuate, my question is not in > a „good faith“? > > I hope more people do come on board of this discussion now! [Dropped at tor-talk as general note]

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Fw: horrific murder suicide - Warriors rugby league player Rowan Baxter
by Zig the N.g 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Now here's some food for thought. Just remember, the only thing to think here is that women never do no wrong, and the things they do can never contribute to outcomes like this - it is the men who are (equally) purely and (equitably) only responsible for such situations since men are more equal than women and therefore evil. Even with presumption of guilt against the man, unjust family "law" courts and presumptive "protection from violence orders", men simply have no right to see their own children if the woman decides - and she can move away, move in with anyone, and rightfully deny her children their right to see their father, irrespective of all court orders and any justice or rights of anyone other than the woman. This is the most important foundation of democracy - women are irreproachable. The N.g ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:41:36 +1100 Subject: Re: horrific murder suicide - Warriors rugby league player Rowan Baxter Follow up: http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/oz-cop-taken-off-family-murder-suicide-case-f… On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:32:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Insanity indeed... > > http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/absolute-legend-australian-rugby-player-sets-… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Officially Approved Terrorism
by Ryan Carboni 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

You will know when terrorism is officially approved when the media reports on it. Naturally I am suspicious of the lack of reporting on the Georgia Guidestones, very bold statement, global depopulation? All news is very limited and misleading nowadays. Things just happen. Our reference points of causality is being undermined. The free press emphasizes cliquish arguments against the other side. I think Rathjen was radicalized by Soros' Extinction Rebellion. https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/germany-shootings-mass-killer-infec… Just days before the killings Rathjen had posted a video on YouTube containing conspiracy theories. Prosecutors say there were "signs of a xenophobic motive" after videos and a 24-page manifesto was found at his home. The manifesto suggested that people from more than two dozen countries should be "destroyed".

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Machiavelli was right
by Ryan Carboni 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Machiavelli was right, it is better to be feared than to be loved. But those who rule by fear often only live for pleasure, and do not share the emotions of those they rule over. The 1934 Business Plot was interesting, a lot of speculation, no convictions. Mobsters say they are concerned, or that this is a problem. A lot of enthusiasm. It is good to have enthusiastic supporters, they have those. All the power to them. I've been grievously harmed by a small number of culpable individuals, tied to other people who would engage in those acts themselves, protected by a larger number of less culpable individuals, protected by an even larger array of institutions. Rest assured, no one is obligated to touch my genitalia and I won't be forcing my way into any your orgies, I don't care for orgies, but you can keep them. In terms of the ongoing Gambit Roulette ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GambitRoulette ), there will be no outcome desirable to me, but things can go many ways.

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Plato missed two government types
by Ryan Carboni 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

1. Satyrocracy: governance by orgy 2. apomimarchy: governance by psyop I think two centuries of scholarship on governance and new observations should cause some form of reassessment of the US constitution...

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Sophisticated Soviet spy radio discovered buried in former forest in Germany | Live Science
by jim bell 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

https://www.livescience.com/soviet-spy-radio-discovered-germany.html

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All Your Purchases Spied Sold, Kashmir Prison All VPN Users, Coinbase Sellout Crypto to Visa
by grarpamp 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jged4x/envestnet-yodlee-credit-card-bank… https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian-police-open-case-against-hundreds-… https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/coinbase-becomes-a-visa-principal-member-…

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Re: [MINISTRY] USA oligarchs go "subtle": WaPo: "It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president
by Ryan Carboni 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

>no sane oligarch No one goes to America to be more sane. People come to America to be more free or to be more rich. What does sanity have to do with anything about America? Oh, this is an interesting blog post about JFK: http://www.90cubedrule.com/in-which-drew-pearson/

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